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“The number of these incidents is beginning to fall and a big part of that is due to the proactive police work by our dedicated lethal high task force supported by our city centre neighbourhood policing team.

“There is still more work to do to take these drugs off the street and we would encourage people with information about the supply of NPS to contact police so we can put suppliers before the court.”

The North East Ambulance Service has been called out to 138 incidents involving former legal highs since March - with 19 in June so far.

But Northumbria Police say that the amount of reports of people being found unconscious in the street is beginning to fall.